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Re: libjava: Fix comment in include/i386-signal.h


On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:32:08AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Zack Weinberg writes:
>  > Make comment match code.  Applied to 3.0 branch as obvious.
> 
> Much of that comment only applies to INIT_FPE; if anything the comment
> is now less accurate than it was before.

I don't claim to understand the area fully, but catch_segv uses
MAKE_THROW_FRAME, and it mucks with the program counter - not as
heavily as HANDLE_DIVIDE_OVERFLOW does, but it does.  That was what I
thought "shenanigans above where we increment the PC and return" was
talking about.

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